Posted on 12/03/2009 2:26:48 PM PST by IbJensen
(Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)
CNSNews.com) – Rev. Carlton Veazey, president and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, told a small crowd of pro-abortion protesters that women have a “God-given right” to abortion and that opposition from pro-life congressmen and religious leaders would never take it away.
Veazey, closing speaker at a “Stop Stupak” rally on Capitol Hill staged by major pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood, NARAL-Pro Choice, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) told the crowd that not only did they have a constitutional right to abortion, but that they had a God-given one as well.
“Don’t let anybody tell you that religious people don’t support choice,” Veazey said at the gathering in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. “You not only have a constitutional right for abortion, but you have a God-given right.”
The rally was held to inspire abortion rights protesters ahead of a day of lobbying for federal funding of abortion in health care reform legislation. The event also served as an outlet for the activists to vent anger at the amendment offered by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) to the House health care bill.
The amendment prohibits any federal money from paying for any part of a health insurance plan that covers abortion and was successfully attached to the House bill in a bipartisan vote.
Pro-abortion members of Congress also attended the rally. They urged attendees to lobby hard against the Stupak amendment to have it stripped from a final version of the bill.
“Make no mistake, the Stupak amendment does not reaffirm existing law – it goes way past it,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.). “It disallows private insurers who operate in the new exchange from covering abortion services in plans receiving government subsidies.”
Calling the Stupak amendment “a stain,” DeLauro said that pro-abortion activists must make legislators “feel your wrath” if abortion coverage is to be preserved.
“So we all have a role to play in doing right by America’s women and making sure comprehensive health insurance reform finally gets passed,” DeLauro said. “But I am confident we will get there again, and that the Affordable Health Care for America Act will become the law of the land, without the stain of Stupak/Pitts.” (The Stupak amendment was co-written with Republican Rep. Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania.)
Baby at 5 months “So make your voices heard!” said DeLauro. “Those Members who are pro-choice and who voted for Stupak should feel your wrath. Those who could not find their way clear to vote for health care, for whatever reason, should feel your wrath too.”
Protesters also took on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), whose lobbying efforts were essential in passing the Stupak amendment, and which earned the ire of pro-abortion protesters.
DeLauro attacked the bishops, saying the organization’s lobbying effort may jeopardize its tax-exempt status. She also described the lobbying as “dubious.”
“As we have worked to secure this groundbreaking legislation, it was never our intention to make abortion part of the health care debate,” she said. “And, in fact, when the issue arose in the Energy and Commerce Committee, pro-choice and pro-life members came together around a compromise that ratified existing law.
“But sadly, the Conference of Catholic Bishops had other ideas,” said DeLauro. “They chose to hold comprehensive health care reform hostage to the abortion issue. In doing so, they not only used a dubious rationale that puts even their own federal funding at risk. They failed their fundamental obligation to help the poor and heal the sick.”
Veazy was even more direct, saying that protesters were there to “take on” the USCCB.
“We are also here to call out the U.S. Conference of [Catholic] Bishops, because no one religion, no theological perspective should get the kind of weight that they can [to] put pressure on the Congress,” he said.
“Hold the whole Congress up and say, ‘If we don’t get our way, we will work against health reform,’” said Veazy. “We in the religious community resent that. We believe that no religion should carry that kind of weight in legislation.”
Veazy reassured the crowd that the Stupak amendment would “not make it,” because “right will always win.”
“Stupak will not make it,” said Veazy. “I want you to go leave this place knowing that right will always win, and we are going to win Stupak.”
Rosie had an unhappy childhood. Her parents had to tie a pork chop around her neck in order to get the family dog to play with her.
If abortion is a God-given right, then it must be abolished so as to not violate the sacred seperation of church and state.
Rosie- quit cramming your religion down our throats!
It actually translates “Thou shall not murder” which is even more apt to this stupidity.
Which proves their god is satan.
Where does it say in the Scriptures that abortion is a Divine right? I thought there was something in the Bible about, Thou Shalt Not Kill. Can you have a God-given right that is not given by God?
Nothing can describe how vile these people truly are - they argue their ‘right’ to kill babies. Where is God?
Accounts of a secret cult of murderers roaming India go back at least as far as the 13th century, but to modern history their story usually begins with the entrance of the British Empire in the early 1800s. For some years, India’s British administrators had been hearing reports of large numbers of travelers disappearing on the country’s roads; but, while disturbing, such incidents were not entirely unusual for the time. It was not until the discovery of a series of eerily similar mass graves across India that the truth began to dawn. Each site was piled with the bodies of individuals ritually murdered and buried in the same meticulous fashion, leading to an inescapable conclusion: these killings were the work of a single, nation-spanning organization. It was known as “Thuggee”.
At its root, the word “Thuggee” means “deceivers,” and this name hints at the methods employed by the cult. Bands of “Thugs” traveled across the country posing as pilgrims, merchants, soldiers, or even royalty, in groups numbering anywhere from a few men to several hundred. Offering protection or company, they would befriend fellow travelers and slowly build their confidence along the road. Often the impostors would journey for days and hundreds of miles with their intended victims, patiently waiting for an opportunity to strike. When the time was right, typically while their targets were encamped and at their most relaxed, a signal would be given—reportedly “Bring the tobacco”—and the Thugs would spring. Each member had a well-honed specialty; some distracted their quarry, some made noise or music to mask any cries, while others guarded the campsite from intruders and escapees. Thugs of the highest rank performed the actual killings. As a prohibition against shedding blood was at the core of Thuggee belief, the murders were performed in a bloodless fashion. The usual method was strangulation with a rumal, the yellow silk handkerchief each thug wore tied around his waist; but...
The Thugs of India
Christopher S. Putnam on 23 July 2007
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-thugs-of-india
Abortion Is a ‘God-Given Right,’ Liberal Leader Declares
An utter perversion which coming from one hell of a satanic looking person (Wow, whatta’ pic!)
Of course, when she says “God,” she means Obama...
Perhaps I am missing something here?
“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed-”
Majority in this country is against abortion in most circumstances precisely because it deprives the most innocent of the right to life.
If this is not self evident to this congressperson, perhaps she should not be left in office.......
Moloch thanks "Reverend" Veazey for his support.
They are just plain consumed with evil, it is that simple. There is no mercy, no compassion, just evil.
From a democrat I’ll believe anything.
Except that they received an education.
I guess Billy Graham and Mother Teresa were wrong and that skanky toothless, formerly 6 months preganant hooker that hangs around my office building and those angry drug addicted hippies down the block have a really good connection to God and what he wants.
This is just another “non profit” group established for the sole purpose of propoganda.
When they are alighned with Planned Parenthood, SEIU, etc, they are nothing more than a LEFT WING LIBERAL group who chose an organization name that makes it sound like religions support abortion.
Certain people within a religion might support a womens right to choose, but their religions dont!
How come nobody supports the unborn child’s right to live, that is a choice. How come nobody supports the “fathers” right to choose?
Because it is not about “choice” at all. That is just a cover up propoganda campaign for MURDER. Always has been.
I cal BS on this one.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men...""We the People of the United States, in Order to...secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
That’s what I was thinking too. But more generally, the “god” of such people is always only an idol, since “god” is whatever they want Him/Her/It to be.
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